When you mistype a command, the router makes the attempt to
connect to the name you typed. And you have to wait until it times
out before you get another prompt.

I know that there is a way to disable that so it just goes
back to the prompt immediately, but I can't remember what it was.

Can anyone tell me?


Fred

no ip domain-lookup

"Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote in message
news:166a5058ffus5a3uis7s9gmhmafd0evnrg@4ax.com...
> When you mistype a command, the router makes the attempt to
> connect to the name you typed. And you have to wait until it times
> out before you get another prompt.
>
> I know that there is a way to disable that so it just goes
> back to the prompt immediately, but I can't remember what it was.
>
> Can anyone tell me?
>
>
> Fred
>

Thank you sir,


Fred

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:59:41 GMT, "Ronnie Higginbotham"
<rhigginb@swbell.net> wrote:

>no ip domain-lookup
>
>"Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote in message
>news:166a5058ffus5a3uis7s9gmhmafd0evnrg@4ax.com...
>> When you mistype a command, the router makes the attempt to
>> connect to the name you typed. And you have to wait until it times
>> out before you get another prompt.
>>
>> I know that there is a way to disable that so it just goes
>> back to the prompt immediately, but I can't remember what it was.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me?
>>
>>
>> Fred
>>
>

"Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote in message
news:166a5058ffus5a3uis7s9gmhmafd0evnrg@4ax.com...
> When you mistype a command, the router makes the attempt to
> connect to the name you typed. And you have to wait until it times
> out before you get another prompt.

Or less intrusive than "no ip domain-lookup"

line console 0
transport prefer none
line vty 0 4
transport prefer none

Turning off domain lookup also breaks useful things like rDNS lookup on
traceroute, and ping by DNS name. It is wothwhile to configgure DNS
services on a router.

ip domain-lookup
ip name-server x.y.z.w